Quotes About Technology

I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.

The first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make, provided that the machine is docile enough to tell us how to keep it under control.

I don't think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don't take the toys out of their hands, we're fools.

In a few years, men will be able to communicate more effectively through a machine than face to face. That is a rather startling thing to say, but it is our conclusion.

The illiterate of the future will not be the man who cannot read the alphabet, but the one who cannot take a photograph.

By 1985, machines will be capable of doing any work Man can do.

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.

The rockets... can be built so powerfully that they could be capable of carrying a man aloft.

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man.

It's absolutely stupid that we live without an ozone layer. We have men, we've got rockets, we've got saran wrap - fix it!

The ball is man's most disastrous invention, not excluding the wheel.

Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.

Everybody tends to merge his identity with other people at the speed of light. It's called being mass man.

Supersonic airplanes have carried men at more than 2,000 miles per hour and there are reasons to believe that this speed will be doubled by 1960 or so.

If we can put a man on the moon, we can make pantyhose comfortable.

Telephone and telegraph were better means of communication than the holy man's telepathy

As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.

When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.

A man's home is no longer his castle; it is no longer a place away from urgent tasks because the telephone breaches the walls with imperious demands.

Man is naturally lazy, therefore he invents labor-saving devices.

He turns off the techno-shit in his goggles. All it does is confuse him; he stands there reading statistics about his own death even as it's happening to him. Very post-modern.

Technically, of course, he was right. Socially, he was annoying us.

Jack the sound barrier. Bring the noise.

Ares always reemerges from the chaos. It will never go away. Athenian civilization defends itself from the forces of Ares with metis, or technology. Technology is built on science. Science is like the alchemists' uroburos, continually eating its own tail. The process of science doesn't work unless young scientists have the freedom to attack and tear down old dogmas, to engage in an ongoing Titanomachia. Science flourishes where art and free speech flourish.